Web Content Management, Web Development, Flash, Video

Flash and Flash Video June 30th, 2009

I have this question asked to me atleast once a week: what’s the difference between Flash and Flash Video, or do you need Flash to play a Flash Video. I found a nice article that articulates the difference.

“The thing most users don’t understand is the difference between Flash and Flash Video. Flash is the interactive part of the process, which allows the creation of the player that is designed to interactively manipulate the video: stop, fast-forward, rewind, etc.

Flash Video on the other hand, is just the video file that the Flash SWF file plays, using the Flash Player. SWF files may include video content that has been imported from FLV or F4V files, or may merely reference external FLV/F4V video files which the SWF file will play back at certain pre-defined or user-input intervals.”

Web Development

Fixoutlook.org Campaign for Better HTML Email June 25th, 2009

So I’m often grateful that NavigationArts doesn’t do a lot of HTML marketing emails. Web development is difficult enough, dealing with Web browsers’ differences, much less having to deal with different email clients, Web mail clients, and now, apparently, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. With Outlook 2007, Microsoft dropped support for Internet Explorer rendering of HTML Emails in Outlook, and they’re continuing the practice in 2010.

Web Content Management, Web Development

Web Applications with Web Standards Front-end Development June 18th, 2009

Two years ago, I had the unique opportunity to contribute with some incredibly distinguished
industry names on a book about Web Standards-based Web development. The book, called Adapting to Web
Standards, is of course available from Amazon.com and other retailers … and some of it is available for free, online.

Webcast

Gov 2.0, Build a Strategy for Public Engagement June 1st, 2009

If you missed the live session “Gov 2.0, Build a Strategy for Public Engagement,” you’ll find the presentation and the recording below.

During this session, we discussed how to make Web 2.0 work for your agency. Is standing up individual tools (blogs, wikis, social media site pages, etc.) enough? We talked about how to transform the successes of individual tools into a cohesive Web 2.0 strategy that reflects the needs of citizens and the goals of stakeholders. We provided actionable tips about how to get started, and how to frame the issues for agency leadership.

During this session you’ll learn:

Insight Article

Rich Animation: Flash vs. jQuery June 1st, 2009

Early Web Animation

At the beginning of the Internet boom there were two ways to create animation. One was by using an animated gif – a very rudimentary web based version of flip cards. An animated gif strings together a number of images that change slightly, creating an illusion of movement when viewing them quickly in order. Not only could the files be very large at times, but they were also highly pixelated and not very smooth.